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County announces plans for land sale money

ASHEBORO — At long last, county land at the traffic circles off Academy Street in Randleman has been sold. The check has cleared and Randolph County commissioners are ready to move on to the construction of a new base for the Randleman EMS squad.

Richard Wells, county manager, confirmed that the land where the existing base is located sold to LodeStar Investments, LLC, for $535,000. The property was the subject of a bidding war between Sheetz and Murphy USA from August 2009 to March 2011. Sheetz won the bid for $893,127.50 but never finalized work. Commissioners finally called time on the site in June 2012 and put the property back on the market.

LodeStar Investments purchased the property in March. There is no information on what the company plans to build there.

But commissioners have plans for the money received from the sale.

Donovan Davis, county EMS director, said his EMS crews have already moved out of the old site. He joked they are “currently homeless” and living on the good graces of the Randleman Fire Department that has given the team rooms to sleep in and a place to park the ambulances.

Commissioners approved plans to install a $124,769.49 modular home from Sutts Homes of Siler City on land in the West Randleman Business Park on Island Ford Road. The EMS teams will use the modular home for living quarters and as an administrative office. An insulated metal garage with two bays will be built beside the home to house the ambulances. The county will pay $100,570.75 to Asheboro Construction, Inc., to build the garage and complete all necessary concrete work.

The balance of the money from the land sale will be used to construct an ambulance station in Trinity. That EMS crew is currently temporarily stationed at the Tabernacle Fire Department.